New high-pressure B2 phase of FeS above 180 GPa

American Mineralogist

Volumn 93, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 492-494

  Sata, Nagayoshi ^a   Ohfuji, Hiroaki ^b   Hirose, Kei ^a,c   Kobayashi, Hisao ^d   Ohishi, Yasuo ^e   Hirao, Naohisa ^e  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earth's core; High pressure; Iron sulfide; Phase transformation; Troilite

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; CESIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IRON ALLOYS; NICKEL ALLOYS; NICKEL METALLOGRAPHY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

COORDINATION NUMBER; EARTH'S CORE; EARTH'S INNER CORES; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH-PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURES; IRON SULFIDE; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION; TROILITE;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

HIGH PRESSURE; IRON SULFIDE; PHASE TRANSITION; TROILITE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 41649113380     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2008.2762     Document Type: Article

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